• StellarExtract@lemmy.zip
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        I worked at Pfizer for 17 years.

        We didn’t discover drugs - we discovered markets.

        If a drug cured asthma in 3 days - we’d kill it.

        Chronic disease.

        is where the money is.

        Cures are bad for business.

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    My dad worked at Nintendo for a billion years. He said Nintendo is the one that has all of Xbox’ good games.

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    do you want less people listening to doctors , and turning anti vaxx? Because that’s how you do it.

    Pharmaceutical companies are not great, but they are still making necessary medicine.

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      Well if you’re unvaxed and spreading diseases, more patients, more medical money!! Can’t go wrong with that!

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    So if this person no longer works for Pfizer, spill the beans! Tell us about all of the cures that it killed.

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    These kinds of takes have legs because the capitalist parasite class really does value profit a lot more than your life or mine. When a drug company finds a cure for blindness and decides to charge almost a million dollars for it, you can’t really argue that they have your best interest in mind, or even a shred of human decency. That said, the take posted is not how it really works. If they discovered a drug that cured asthma in 3 days they’d patent it and sell it for a million dollars. They’ve already done it for other ailments. No one can argue they wouldn’t.

    (and btw, just disable JS to kill the paywall on that link)

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    Part of why it’s this way is the expense of getting anything approved! I blame our bureaucracy as much as I blame those types

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      That’s what stops a lot of bullshit entering the market.

      You’re oblivious to blame regulations on this.